CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (PNAN) – “The New Humanists: Introspective Impressions” is currently on view at the Hearst Center for the Arts through Sunday, January 8, 2023.
The exhibit examines the swell of post-World War II visual artists making work rooted in the psychological state of humanity: through introspection, observation and reflection.
Heavily influenced by German Expressionism, Surrealism, and the Social Realism of the 1930s, these artists sought to elicit the viewer with an emotional response, to question how we see ourselves and the world around us.
Included in the exhibition is the work of Leonard Baskin, Robert Marx, Mauricio Lasansky, Morton Kaish, Jacob Landau, Don Cortese, Jack Levine, Fredrico Castellón, and José Luis Cuevas. The exhibit was organized by the Syracuse University Art Museum.